Did you know the first product DomainTools sold was an API? We built an innovative domain suggestion engine called Name Spinner that was —and still is—popular with registrars, likely driven to some extent by the crowded .com space. For those of you who are not registrars, innovative tools such as Domain Suggestions (called Name Spinner) and Domain Search will be your ticket to finding a good domain name that matches a product, service, or website concept.
Since then, we’ve build a solid set of research, history, and alert products for our members. But until recently, we haven’t been able to invest the time needed in order to make that data available through an API. We built a few data services for our Whois Lookup and Historical Whois products, and although the data services themselves were quite solid, the documentation was rough (or non-existent) and there was no way to sign up or manage your account without contacting our business development team.
Our new API product offering aims to change all that.
